GRAS

[ gras ]

  1. generally recognized as safe: a status label assigned by the FDA to a listing of substances (GRAS list ) not known to be hazardous to health and thus approved for use in foods.

Origin of GRAS

1
First recorded in 1970–75

Words Nearby GRAS

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How to use GRAS in a sentence

  • Our subject being Mistral and not Félix GRAS, a passing mention must suffice.

    Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred Downer
  • Afraid he got poisoned with some foie GRAS he ate—jolly good tack I call it—I'll have some more, please.

  • Bone two dozen larks, season, and put into each a piece of pt de foie GRAS (truffled).

    Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode | Harriet A. de Salis
  • Take a dozen larks, bone and stuff them with pt de foie GRAS, and make them as nearly as possible of the same size and shape.

    Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode | Harriet A. de Salis
  • Take out the trail, and add to it either three fowl livers or their equivalent in pt de foie GRAS.

    Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode | Harriet A. de Salis